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rsewebsite(Harvardlog- ss).(T 9/3) Lecture 1: Introduction: Why does Corruption Matter? What is it? What Causes it?(50 pages)Ralph Braibanti, 1962. “Reflections on Bureaucratic Corruption” Public Administration 40:357-72Michael Johnston, Syndromes of Corruption, Ch. 3: 36-48Jakob Svensson, 2005. “Eight Questions about Corruption”, Journal of Economic Perspectives19(3): 19–42.Part I. Corruption across time, space, and the social sciences(Th 9/5) Lecture 2: Corruption through Other Eyes (68 pages)Aleko Konstantinov, Bai Ganyo: Incredible Tales of a Modern Bulgarian (1895), ed. V. Friedman,Ch. 11 "Bai Ganyo Does Elections"Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls (1842), Chapters 1-2Tahar Ben Jelloun, Corruption, pp. 1-28.(T 9/10) Lecture 3: Changing Meanings of Corruption Over Time (49 pages)Carl Friedrich, Corruption Concepts in Historical Perspective, Heidenheimer/Johnston, pp. 15-22Gordon Wood (1969) The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, chapter 1Andrew Jackson, “First State of the Union Address” 1829, pp. 1-2(Th 9/12) Lecture 4: Defining Corruption: Public, Private, and Abuse (61 pages)Susan Rose-Ackerman, Corruption and Government, Chapter 6 (pp. 91-110)Peters and Welch, "Gradients of Corruption in Perceptions of American Public Life", pp. 155-172in Heidenheimer and JohnstonBardhan, Pranab “The Economist’s Approach to the Problem of Corruption”, World Development2006 34:2 pp. 341–348.Cris Shore and Dieter Haller, “Introduction-Sharp Practice: Anthropology and the Study ofCorruption”, in Corruption: Anthropological Perspectives, Pluto Press, 2005, pp. 1-19

4(T 9/17) ogyandculture(70pages)Fisman and Miguel (2008) “Nature or Nurture? Understanding the Culture of Corruption” fromEconomic Gangsters (Princeton University Press), pp. dSociety,pp.83- ooklynLawReview70(4):1177–1194.(Th 9/19) ndeconomic(48 pages)Persson,Annaetal.2010.“TheFailureofAnti- ‐corruptionPolicies”.QoGWorkingpaper,12- s,pp.41- ‐46.McMullan, M. 1961. "A Theory of Corruption." The Sociological Review 99- ‐617.Huntington, Samuel (2007), “Modernization and Corruption”, Political Corruption. Concepts &Context, ed. by Arnold Heidenheimer and Michael Johnston, New Brunswick, pp. 253-256.(T 9/24) Lecture 7: Theories (i.e. causes) of Corruption 3: legal, institutional and political(80 pages)Rose-Ackerman, Susan. 1999. Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 9 only: 143-177Rose-Ackerman, Susan. 2001. "Political corruption and democratic structures” in The PoliticalEconomy of Corruption, Arvind K. Jain, ed. New York: Routledge, pp. 35- 62Shefter, Martin, (1977) “Party and Patronage: Germany, England, and Italy” Politics and Society pp.403-424(Th 9/26) Lecture 8: Social Science & Corruption: How to Study it? How to Measure it?(39 pages)Transparency International (2010): Corruption Perceptions Index 2010.Kaufmann, Kraay, Mastruzzi: “Measuring governance using cross-country perceptions data”, in:Susan Rose-Ackerman (2006): International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption. Pp. 72-78.Olken and Barron (2009) “The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh,”Journal of Political Economy pp. 417-28Treisman, Daniel. 2007. “What Have We Learned About the Causes of Corruption from Ten Yearsof Cross-National Empirical Research?” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol.10, 211-21, 241-2.Part II. Corruption in Comparative and Historical Perspective(T 10/1) Lecture 9: Corruptioninoldstates:LongHistoryandEvolution(63 pages)Charles Tilly, “War Making and state Making as Organized Crime,” p. 169-191.Alexis Tocqueville, Old Regime and the French Revolution, selections [Book II, chapters 9 and 10]Koenraad Swart “The Sale of Public Offices” from Heidenheimer, Johnston, LeVine (eds) PoliticalCorruption, pp. 87-100.

5(Th 10/3) Lecture 10: Legislative Corruption: sinecures to stock portfolios (48 pages)A.S. Foord. 1947. The Waning of “The Influence of the crown”. English Historical Review,62(245): 484-507.Rubinstein, W. 1983. ‘The End of “Old Corruption” in Britain 1780-1860’, Past and Present, No.101,73- ationbyU.S.Congressmen,1850- ‐1880,pp.1- turnstoofficeinpostwarBritishpolitics.American Political Science Review, 103(04): 513-17, 527-31.(T 10/8) Lecture 11: Corruption in U.S. States and Cities: Machines and the Legacy of Reform(65 pages)Steffens, Lincoln. 1904. The Shame of the Cities [Chapter 1 only: 3-26].Riordon, William. 1968. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very PracticalPolitics. [Chapter 1 only: Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft]Shefter, Martin. 1978. Political Parties and the State. [Excerpt from Chapter 6 on Postwar NewYork only: 215-231]. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.Matthew Gentzkow, Edward L. Glaeser, and Claudia Goldin, “The Rise of the Fourth Estate. HowNewspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered” in Glaeser and Goldin, eds., Corruptionand Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History, U. of Chicago Press, 2006 pp. 187-206(Th 10/10) Lecture 12: Mass Democracy and Corruption: Electoral fraud (40 pages)Ziblatt, Daniel.2009. “Shaping Democratic Practice and the Causes of Electoral Fraud: Theoryand Evidence from Pre-1914 Germany.” American Political Science Review, pp. 1-3; 12-19.Branch, Daniel, “At the Polling Station in Kibera” London Review of Books, Jan. 2008, pp. 26-27Throup, David, “The Count” Journal of Eastern African Affairs (July 2008), pp. 290-304Schaffer, Fred. 2002. “Might Cleaning Up Elections Keep People Away from the Polls? Historicaland Comparative Perspectives” International Political Science Review, pp. 69-84Movie “An African Election” (anafricanelection.com), 1hr. 26m, ITunes buy 9.99, rent 3.99(T 10/15) Lecture 13: Campaign finance, comparative and contemporary (47 pages)Michael Johnston, Syndromes of Corruption 60-77, 86-88S. Ansolabehere, J.M. De Figueiredo, and J.M. Snyder. 2003. Why is there so little money in USpolitics? Journal of Economic Perspectives, 17(1): 105–12, 116-19, 125-27.Thomas Stratmann, “Do Strict Electoral Campaign Finance Rules Limit Corruption?”, CESifoDICE Report 1/2003Thomas F. Burke, “The Concept of Corruption in Campaign Finance Law”, 14 ConstitutionalCommentary 1997 , pp. 130-38.WSJ Online piece at .html is an update ofBurke piece with history of cases(Th 10/17) Lecture 14: Bureaucratic corruption and Capture (33 pages)SimonJohnson,“TheQuiet Coup”, Atlantic Monthly May 2009

stInfluenceandHowtoLimitit.1- liticalBubbles104- ‐16Part III. The Limits of Democratic Institutions(T 10/22) Lecture 15: Power and Repression: Corruption in Authoritarian regimes(71 pages)Mancur Olsen, “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development” American Political Science Review,pp. 567-576.Chang, E. and Golden, M. A. (2010), “Sources of Corruption in Authoritarian Regimes.” SocialScience Quarterly, 91: 1–20.Mark Thompson, “The Marcos Regime in the Philippines” in Sultanistic Regimes (eds) Chehabi andJuan Linz, Johns Hopkins Press, 1998, pp. 206-229Ling Li, “Performing Bribery in China: guanxi-practice, corruption with a human face,” Journal ofContemporary China (2011), pp 1-20.(Th 10/24) Lecture 16: Democratic Transitions and Corruption (68 pages)Adam Przeworski, “Democracy” from Democracy and the Market (Cambridge: CambridgeUniveristy Press, 1991, pp. 10-15John McMillian and Pablos Zoido, “How to Subvert Democracy: Montesinos in Peru” Journal ofEconomic Perspectives (2004), 69-92Javier Auyero, “The Logic of Clientelism in Argentina: an Ethnographic Account” Latin AmericanResearch Review (2000): 55-81Conor O’Dwyer “Runaway State-Building: How Political Parties Shape States in PostcommunistEurope World Politics (2004) July, pp. 520-534.(T 10/29) Lecture 17: Easy Money I: Foreign Aid and Corruption (30 pages)J. Svensson. 2000. "Foreign Aid and Rent-Seeking", Journal of International Economics 51: 437–40, icReview92(4):1126- ‐37(excerpt).Carol Lancaster, "Aid Effectiveness in Africa: The Unfinished Agenda", Journal of AfricanEconomies, 8(4): 487-503.Corruption in Afghanistan: corrupt.1.19050534.html(Th 10/31) Lecture 18: Easy Money II: Natural resources and kleptocracy (37 pages)Der Spiegel article that summarizes general literature on resource 0,1518,426730,00.htmlShaxson, Nicholas. 2007. "Oil, Corruption, and the Resource Curse," International Affairs 83:1123-1140.Sambit Bhattacharyya and Roland Hodler. 2010. "Natural resources, democracy, and corruption",European Economic Review, 54(3): 608-621.(excerpt)Economist article on corruption in y id E1 RDVSSDS

7Part IV. The Possibility of Fixing Corruption(T 11/5) Lecture 19: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Violence (43 pages)Rose-Ackerman, Susan. 1999. Corruption and Government. Chapter 6: 91-99. (reprise)Luise Shelley, “The Unholy Trinity: Transnational Crime, Corruption and Terrorism”, BrownJournal of World Affairs, vol XI. 2005, pp. 101-11.Diego Gambetta, Sicilian Mafia, 1996. Ch. 1: “The Market”Gounev P. and Bezlov T., “Examining the links between organised crime and corruption”, Center ofthe Study of Democracy. Executive Summary.P. Le Billon, “Buying peace or fuelling war: the role of corruption in armed conflicts”, Journal ofInternational Development, 2003, pp. 421-24(Th 11/7) Lecture 20: Whether and how international influences can help (55 pages)Sandholtz and Gray (2003): “International Integration and National Corruption” InternationalOrganization, pp. 761-800Moises Naim (2005): “Bad Medicine” Foreign Policy, pp. 95-96G-20, (2010), “G-20 Anti-Corruption Action PlanG-20 (2011), “First Monitoring Report of G-20 Anti-Corruption Action Plan.(T 11/12) Lecture 21: Prosecutors, Courts and Domestic Enforcement in the U.S. (60 pages)FrankAnechiarico and James Jacobs, 1996. The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity, pp. nclusionsandaProposal.”HastingsLawJournal51:701- ‐15.HarveySilverglate,ThreeFeloniesaDay,pp.3- ‐31(Th 11/14) Lecture 22: Free press, media, transparency (52 ytheKeytoReducingCorruptioninResource- ‐RichCountries?”,WorldDevelopment37(3):521- 31:301- omics87(7- ‐8):1801–14,1820- 2- ‐68.(T 11/19) Lecture 23: Institutional Reform: Civil Service (82 pages)Robert Klitgaard (1988): Controlling Corruption. pp. 73-96Anna Grzymala Busse (2006) “The Discreet Charm of Formal Institutions: Postcommunist PartyCompetition and State Oversight” Comparative Political Studies, pp. 271-300DanielCarpenter(2000)"State Building through Reputation Building: Coalitions of Esteem andProgram Innovation in the National Postal System, 4(2),pp.121- ‐155.

8(Th 11/21) Lecture 24: Institutional Reform: local (49 pages)A.V. Banerjee, E. Duflo, and R. Glennerster, 2008. “Putting a Band-Aid on a Corpse: Incentives forNurses in the Indian Public Health Care System”. Journal of the European Economic Association,6(2-3): 487–493.B.A. Olken, 2007. “Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia”.Journal of Political Economy, 115: 200–13, 101:1274- ‐6,1279- ‐84,1307- rnalofEconomics123(2):703- ‐11,743- ‐4.B.A. Olken. 2010. “Direct democracy and local public goods: Evidence from a field experiment inIndonesia”. American Political Science Review, 104(2): 243–47.(T 11/26) Lecture 25: Are there any “clean cases”? (60 pages)Good (1994) Corruption and Mismanagement in Botswana, pp. ics,pp.46- ‐49,63- ‐72.Uslaner (2008) Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law, pp.23-31, pp.180-84, eview

The Shame of the Cities [Chapter 1 only: 3-26]. Riordon, William. 1968. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics. [Chapter 1 only: Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft] Shefter, Martin. 1978. Political Parties and the State.